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trilobites

wow, thanks. very helpful!

thanks

thanks

pandiano

MANY THX!!!!!!!!!!!!!

robertmarkbram

Helped me!

http://www.thdyoung.com/scrapbook/ tom

helped me too!

Rob

Is it possible to get vim to show line numbers by default? I need them more often than not.

http://www.tech-recipes.com Quinn McHenry

Sure thing — just add

:set number

to the file .vimrc in your home directory.

Sometime when you get bored, type :set all while in vim.. it’ll show you all the available options. Chances are if there’s some behavior you don’t like in vim, you can tweak it.

Mark Szymanski

You shouldn’t need the colon (:) if it is in your ~/.vimrc. Just add set number to the ~/.vimrc

Sandy

Thanks. It was helpful for me

Joe

Nice… had forgotten my vi

Vasanth

thanks it helped!

Dave

too easy.. 🙂

James

Good tip. I get horizontal lines underneath the numbers, is that supposed to happen?

Anonymous

You can also add:
set number
~/.vimrc

http://dushan888.wordpress.com/ Dushi

that was so helpful. thanx…

http://timbroder.com Tim Broder

sweet, thanks

Rick Graham

This is what I was looking for.

Here’s what I did:

Edit ~/.vimrc

add these lines:

nnoremap :set number
nnoremap :set nonumber

Now, F6 turns line numbers on, Shift F6 turns them off.

Cédric Bosdonnat

@Rick: you can use only one shortcut to toggle the line numbers also with the following line (note the ! after the number which mean “toggle” for vi):

nnoremap :set number!

Ville Aakko

For me, I needed to remove (otherwise they vere pasted into vim) (otherwise they vere pasted into vim)

Ville Aakko

What… hmm., no preview and this notices the tags and does something gunky… anyways, I ment to remove (sorry for the whitespace), i.e. only nnoremap :set number! is sufficient.nnoremap :set number! is sufficient.

Anonymous

first time – comments are important more then the post

Anonymous

Thanks, it worked for me. (gvim version 7.2)

Anonymous

read the instruction for configuring .vimrc file

http://twitter.com/totsapium tojo

thanks krab

Opalinux

very useful thx ! ! !

Ramy Mousa

How to save a file with numbers ,Rathnasekaran.R

Bytemangler

abreviations work, too:

:set nu
:set nonu

SagarRmali

my terminal doesn’t show color word. for example when we write int then it turns green, but mine shows black. this happens for all commands .
help me!

lancesimms

I tried so many of these things to get the line number to always appear at the lower right hand corner and none of them worked. It turns out that all you need to do is add

set ruler

to your .vimrc file

A Obrzut

This did not work as root.

Anon

The .vimrc file needs to be in your home directory. Since the root user’s home directory is in a different location than the standard user, it would make sense to put it in that location.

Though if using sudo to act as root, it may or may not use the user’s .vimrc file – simple enough to test.

cs

This toggles line numbres:
:set nu!
Put this in .vimrc to make F6 toggle line numbers:
nnoremap :set nu!

Dsa

Thanks

pedro

do :help linenumbers

http://www.facebook.com/people/Maikel-Bald/1674261727 Maikel Bald

Thanks!

linsu

Thank you

Sathis

I want a VI command by which i can remove all my vi settings. ie, I assume there must be something which can be entered in single line mode (Like we do :set ic, :syn off) by which vi will behave with default or no settings. I wasn’t able to get something by googling

Maryam

Wonderful !!

Edwin

Thanks… its useful to me…

L

Perfect, thanks!
First result on google when searching for ‘vim line number’, btw.